‘Lucifer over London’ is a rather strange EP from Current 93 since there’s very little if any neo folk music or any of the other similar sounding music C93 was performing at this stage of their career. Either way this three song twenty-seven minute EP can only be described as pure genius.
The title track begins rather oddly with the opening riff from Black Sabbath’s, ‘Paranoid.’ It then shifts into a fast paced rock-ish song with David Tibet’s excellent vocals & lyrics as well as some acoustic guitar in the background. I have absolutely no idea what the lyrics are about but somehow it's absolutely brilliant since Tibet always delivers his words in such a poetic manner that it doesn't even really matter if it makes sense or not. At about five minutes and thirty seconds in it segues into much slower acoustic music accompanied with a lot of ringing bells in the background. At the same time Tibet begins reciting the words ‘six, six, six, it makes us sick, were sick, sick, sick of six six six’ over and over again for the remaining two minutes of the song. It’s hard to fully describe this wonderful song, but its simply a must hear recording and pretty much one of my all-time favs.
The second song, ‘Sad Go Round’ is another rock-ish song that mostly features electric guitar and some of the best vocals I’ve heard from Tibet. The guitar in this song is just terrific and there’s even a great solo in the middle of the song. The first time I heard this song I must have hit the repeat button five times until I decided to move forward with the EP. Apparently this is a cover from a band called, ‘The Groundhogs.’
The final song on this EP is just spectacular. The song is a mostly spoken word song that starts out rather slowly with some subtle ambiance and calm speaking from Tibet. As the songs progresses through its thirteen minutes it gradually becomes more lively and towards the end of the song the listener is treated to some fantastic acoustic guitars and very emotional vocals from Tibet. The song is both chilling and spooky, but also beautiful and fairly sad as well. Easily one of Current 93’s best songs ever and an incredibly catchy song on top of it all, even despite it's weirdness.
Although this EP was a bit different than what some had come to expect from Current 93 at the time it is nonetheless a masterpiece. Each of the three songs are unbelievable. I'm sure the original pressing is long out of print, but these songs plus a few other rarities were gathered together and released on the, 'SixSixSix: SickSickSick' compilation six years ago.
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